ER the T.V. Show

Nurses General Nursing

Published

Hello,

I know most healthcare people are not very fond of E.R., but I ws just wondering if anybody watched the last episode. The lady from "Sex and the Cityy" was a guest star. She played a stroke victim.

I really thought that it showed the difference between the nurse and the doctor during that episode. Even though the doctor spoke to the patient, it was the nurse who seemed to be able to "read" the stroke victim's mind, even though the pateint couldn't say a word.

Would anyone agree with that assesment? (Or do most of you think it was way off base?)

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I definitely picked that up too - I liked how the docs gave her full credit, too, and didn't try and act like they knew it all along. Even the mother seemed to know that Sam was the reason her son would be okay. LOVED IT.
That show is one of my favorites, and I'm hoping Grey's Anatomy, debuting this coming Monday in my area is as good, since they cast the final episode of the season last night.
Specializes in Pediatrics, Nursing Education.

love's labor lost... absolutely the best episode they did IMHO.

my husband is in the TV industry, and he feels that this was an excellant episode from a directing standpoint too. i STILL bawl every time i see that episode!

Specializes in NICU.
love's labor lost... absolutely the best episode they did IMHO.

my husband is in the TV industry, and he feels that this was an excellant episode from a directing standpoint too. i STILL bawl every time i see that episode!

Agreed - one of the most dramatic hours of television I've EVER seen.

Have you seen the previews for the 14 Hours movie on TNT. It's about a Texas hospital in the middle of a hurricane. Looks good in an "as long as its happening there and not at my facility" sort of way.

Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Education.
Have you seen the previews for the 14 Hours movie on TNT. It's about a Texas hospital in the middle of a hurricane. Looks good in an "as long as its happening there and not at my facility" sort of way.

My recent issue of NURSEWEEK gave it a thumbs-up saying it really highlights the role that nursing played during the '14 hours'. One of the main characters (played by JoBeth Williams) is the ED charge nurse.

And remember, this happened on a weekend...on the night shift! When's the last time your facility's disaster drill happened after the sun went down? I think it can serve to remind us that bad things don't schedule themselves whenever the largest number of staff & administrators are in-house!

I slept through another episode of ER, I assume that Dr. Carter is gone. I don't know what all I missed but if someone could fill me in I would be greatful.

I enjoy the show but I thought the episode with the young stroke victim emphasized the PATIENT'S POINT OF VIEW. Was it really a surprise to nurses that the doc didn't relate to the patient as a person and the nurse spoke to her? I don't see what is unrealistic about that! Do you?

Specializes in Cardiology.
I slept through another episode of ER, I assume that Dr. Carter is gone. I don't know what all I missed but if someone could fill me in I would be greatful.

Well Carter flew to Paris to see Kim (whose mom is in the hospital). Apparently he is fighting to keep Kim, and said he'd leave his life back in the states to be with her. Neela started an umbilical line unassisted and Ray caused a pt to develop an air embolism in the heart when he took down a neck dressing of his pt before she was intubated. Sam and Luka went for couples counseling. Oh and the kid that's the new chief resident is taking advantage of his position. Lewis' reasoning for appointing him as chief was to get him away from the pts. I think that's about it for last night's episode.

If the stroke is embolic and is less than 3 hours old, tPA can be used to dissolve the clot. Function does return quite quickly as blood flow is restored to the watershed areas (hers was in the temporal area, where the speech centers lie). The tissues have not been deprived of vital oxygen long enough to cause tissue breakdown or permanent damage. This is the logic behind getting treatment for a stroke ASAP and not waiting - the damage can be reversed easily if treatment is begun before tissue breakdown occurs, but if it has been longer than 3 hours, the tPA treatment is said to be of little value.

An aneurysmal stroke is not treated in the same fashion, however. The moment there is bleeding into brain tissue, there is damage to neurons from the pressure of the bleeding (Munro-Kelly Hypothesis), and toxins (cytokines, etc) created by the inflammation. :)

Paula

thank you Paula. There is no such thing as a fast recovery. None. Nada. Don't be silly.

I slept through another episode of ER, I assume that Dr. Carter is gone. I don't know what all I missed but if someone could fill me in I would be greatful.

Sure....

Carter gets tenure, but Susan does not.

Carter shows Abby progress on the new hospital wing, the Joshua Carter Center.

Abby's boyfriend Jake the med student wants to match County as his first choice instead of UCSF. Of course he is doing this to be with her and she is pushing him away.

Sam is not pregnant. She and Luka have entered therapy because she feels they do not communicate. She is upset that he won't talk about his family. Things don't look good.

Morris (the idiot) assumed his role as chief resident. He spent his first day trying to get Susan to get his office painted and taking bribes from the residents for better slots on the work schedule.

Pratt chewed out Neela for starting an umbilical line on an 8-day old septic newborn. He was concerned that she did it alone when he was out of the room. You could see that Chuney wanted to say something to stop her. Pratt did show that he would have been a much better choice for Chief.

Susan told Ray to consider carefully whether he wanted to return for his R-2 year. She tells him he was good but could be outstanding if he only stopped watching the clock. She told him he could go work as a "doc-in-the-box" and make enough to support his music.

Those 2 older ladies who preferred to live on the street than with their niece returned. Turns out the niece had them panhandling to support her crack habit and tried to strangle one of them when they didn't bring in enough. One of the sisters stabbed her in the neck is self-defense. Ray took down the dressing on the penetrating neck wound (which had punctured the subclavian) BEFORE she was intubated. Pratt cracked the chest and they found that her heart was completely empty.

Carter went to Paris to after he received a call at the hospital that Kem's mom was hospitalized. Turns out she was okay. Carter and Kem spend time pondering the beauty of Paris at dawn. Some French dude from Kem's past was hanging around and Cater got jealous. Carter told Kem he loved her and wished to be with her, but she refused. Kem's mom told Carter that Kem does not understand that you can't love until you have experienced true sorrow (referring to their lost infant perhaps).

Carter heads back to Chicago, but in the taxi on the way to the airport, he jumps out of the cab and runs (in the rain) the Kem's apartment and tells her he is going back with her to Africa and they can take as much time as she needs. He tells her he will not live without her.

The preview for next week was Carter at a farewell party and some kind of natural disaster where Ray takes the lead...

One word Chad ... TIVO!

:p

Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

I don't know, that synopsis was dang good!! And I watched it!

Specializes in ER.
My recent issue of NURSEWEEK gave it a thumbs-up saying it really highlights the role that nursing played during the '14 hours'. One of the main characters (played by JoBeth Williams) is the ED charge nurse.

And remember, this happened on a weekend...on the night shift! When's the last time your facility's disaster drill happened after the sun went down? I think it can serve to remind us that bad things don't schedule themselves whenever the largest number of staff & administrators are in-house!

Awesome show/movie!!!!! Totally made nurses look as good as they really are! Horror story from hell - I can't imagine what would happen if the power went out at our hospital, and I work at a MUCH smaller hospital that doesn't have a lot of critical patients. My favorite part was the little old lady who refused to be transported until she was the last one left - the kind of patient I love! Somehow, the sweet patients I see are the ones who stick with me forever, and make my life and chosen career seem worthwhile. I see so many FFs and generally angry, persnickity people that to see this show portray a really sweet patient (yes, there are a few of them out there!) was awesome. I'm an ER addict, and I love my Tivo, because since I work nights, I often miss shows, so I love coming home after a bad night at work and watching my favorite episodes of ER. Can't wait until next week's episode!

+ Add a Comment